Murchisoniidae

Murchisoniidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MurchisonioideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 338 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 132.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 125.77 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 548 occurrencesOrdovician — about 67 of 548 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 138 of 548 occurrencesDevonian — about 244 of 548 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 40 of 548 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 27 of 548 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 548 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 17 of 548 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 13 of 548 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 548 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 548 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 548 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 548 occurrences494–482 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences482–469 Mya — about 4 occurrences469–457 Mya — about 6 occurrences457–444 Mya — about 55 occurrences444–431 Mya — about 53 occurrences431–419 Mya — about 89 occurrences419–406 Mya — about 55 occurrences406–394 Mya — about 24 occurrences394–381 Mya — about 146 occurrences381–369 Mya — about 11 occurrences369–356 Mya — about 8 occurrences356–344 Mya — about 10 occurrences344–331 Mya — about 14 occurrences331–319 Mya — about 7 occurrences319–306 Mya — about 6 occurrences306–294 Mya — about 3 occurrences294–281 Mya — about 2 occurrences281–269 Mya — about 5 occurrences269–256 Mya — about 10 occurrences256–244 Mya — about 11 occurrences244–231 Mya — about 23 occurrences231–219 Mya — about 1 occurrence219–206 Mya — about 1 occurrence206–194 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences144–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–119 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences471.3 Mya132.6 Mya494 Mya119 Mya

548 occurrences of Murchisoniidae on record, most of them in the Devonian. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

548 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

191 formations

Kopanina — 49.96°N, 14.18°EKopanina — 50.05°N, 14.37°EKopanina — 50.67°N, 15.17°EKopanina — 50.00°N, 14.33°EKopanina — 49.93°N, 14.05°ESchwelm — 51.28°N, 7.28°ESchwelm — 51.35°N, 7.58°EBücheler — 50.30°N, 8.07°EBücheler — 50.30°N, 8.03°ELucas — 42.17°N, 83.18°WLucas — 41.68°N, 83.74°WLucas — 42.10°N, 83.19°WCürten — 50.40°N, 8.18°ECürten — 50.52°N, 6.56°ECürten — 51.81°N, 10.24°EVerulam — 44.45°N, 78.70°WVerulam — 44.52°N, 78.97°WVerulam — 44.43°N, 78.78°WVerulam — 44.48°N, 78.95°WVerulam — 45.42°N, 75.72°WWindellama — 35.00°S, 149.83°ELexington Limestone — 38.00°N, 84.67°WLexington Limestone — 38.07°N, 84.52°WLexington Limestone — 38.17°N, 84.84°WLexington Limestone — 37.67°N, 84.94°WLexington Limestone — 38.35°N, 84.31°WLexington Limestone — 38.16°N, 84.86°WLexington Limestone — 37.75°N, 84.77°WCassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°EGuelph — 43.68°N, 80.43°WGuelph — 43.34°N, 80.32°WGuelph — 44.18°N, 80.82°WGuelph — 43.43°N, 80.31°WRacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WRacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WQingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°ELilydale Limestone — 37.82°S, 144.97°ELilydale Limestone — 37.75°S, 145.35°EDangarfield — 32.05°S, 150.92°EDangarfield — 32.03°S, 150.97°ETorquay — 50.47°N, 3.50°WColumbus Limestone — 40.21°N, 83.18°WColumbus Limestone — 40.11°N, 83.14°WTonoloway Limstone — 39.63°N, 78.23°WTonoloway Limstone — 39.57°N, 78.84°WTonoloway Limstone — 39.44°N, 78.97°WKowala — 50.88°N, 20.62°EKowala — 50.83°N, 20.70°EKowala — 50.63°N, 21.37°EDawson Bay — 52.78°N, 100.95°WDawson Bay — 52.48°N, 99.98°WDawson Bay — 52.84°N, 100.69°WDawson Bay — 51.58°N, 99.27°WGrau Riffkalk — 46.65°N, 12.85°EUpper Visby — 57.50°N, 18.55°EDunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WChaumont — 45.45°N, 76.69°WChaumont — 45.88°N, 76.93°WChaumont — 45.50°N, 76.56°WChaumont — 45.03°N, 74.83°WChaumont — 45.33°N, 75.72°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 78.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 77.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 76.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 75.00°W

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The named rock units Murchisoniidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 167 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 50 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Murchisoniidae and its relatives

Devonian

Where Murchisoniidae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

3,573 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 390 sites for Murchisoniidae, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

204 references

Each of the 548 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 192 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Murchisoniidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Murchisoniidae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMurchisonioidea through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Koken 1896